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Puff marijuana, not tobacco in Holland’s coffee shops

In front | FOCUS
End of an Amsterdam era? (Photo: ©Rubira/ Flickr)

The anti-smoking law takes effect from 1 July in The Netherlands

by Britta Kuck // 23/06/08

FOCUS
Wanted (Photo: J.A.L.E.X/ Flickr)

Housing in Hungary: no Chinese or blacks


Two estate agencies have highlighted discrimination in Hungary after advertising against 'coloured skin' tenants

by Nora Farkas / Judit Schvéger // 04/06/08

INVESTIGATION
Corvinus university on the banks of the Danube river (Photo: ?pez?/ Flickr)

Unpopular Bologna process for Budapest’s class of 2009

The accords making European higher education compatible reached Hungarian universities in 2006. A sociology student at Budapest Corvinus University describes the trying experience of the new system which celebrated ten years on 25 May

by Csilla Pálma Major // 23/05/08

ANALYSIS
Cheer up (Photo: leeroy09481/ Flickr)

Suicide and stress in the workplace

Enslaved into the rhythm of work, are employees mere instruments of their jobs? Stress clogs up the cogs of any enterprise. What are the causes of this troubling phenomenon?

by Aurlien BORDET // 21/05/08

FOCUS
Kad Mera & Dany Boon | ©Jean-Claude Lother/ Pathé Distribution

‘Ch’tis’: most successful French film since 1945


One million more tickets, and ‘Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis’ (‘Welcome to the Sticks’) will become the most successful film in France since 1945. Can the French comedy break all box office records?

by Luise Franke // 15/05/08

TESTIMONY
credits : Roslan Tangah (flickr)

'Foreigners' in Europe: the real eurogeneration?

More and more young people around the world are setting their feet on European soil, and seem to fit in well despite bureaucratic complications. We hear from Russian, Angolan and Peruvian students living in Italy and France on their idea of Europe

by Soili Semkina // 08/05/08

INTERVIEW

Second generation immigrants: regular young Europeans?

Integration problems mean being born in a European country is not always enough to be a part of the eurogeneration. We speak to Mahdi and Ali, two second generation immigrants in France and Germany

by Jane Mery // 08/05/08

ANALYSIS
My favorite destinations (Photo: *nathan/ Flickr)

Erasmus orgasmus in Spain and Germany

But not the UK – a lookback on how the European exchange programme is doing, twenty-one years after its creation

by Sybille Regout // 08/05/08

TESTIMONY

Overworked, underpaid in a French call centre

Too many young Europeans are forced to work in bad conditions to finance their studies in France. Why a young Italian quit

by Francesco Piccinini // 30/04/08

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Remembering the riots in Tallinn

One year later everything passed quietly and, although the Russian MFA would not agree with me, it seems that people have finally learnt a really important lesson: violence does not help on getting anything. Not in Europe, at least.

by g.angioni // 28/04/08

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Road without madness day

Today we will be safe on the road, even if we gear up our vehicles. It has to be so. The 27 of April is The European road safety day. This day officially came into being last year. There was never unofficial one before.

by erika // 27/04/08

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A wider way for bloggers

How do Lithuanian writers of internet diaries live? A few weeks ago they met at the second Lithuanian bloggers conference BLOGin 2008 in Vilnius. The communication about the event was planned effectively - the tickets, worth a sell-out play, were all bought. Approximately 400 participants attended. This professionally organized meeting of ...

by erika // 17/04/08




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